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Dominic Sur 0170 Old Main Hill. Logan, Utah. 84322–0710 [email protected] - 435.797.9058 EDUCATION University of Virginia Ph.D., History of Religions, May 2015 Charlottesville, VA Department of Religious Studies Focus: Buddhism, History, Philosophy, Literature Dissertation: “A Study of Rongzom’s Disclosing the Great Vehicle Approach in the History of Tibet's Great Perfection Tradition” Harvard Divinity School M.T.S., Buddhist Studies, 2009 Cambridge, MA Sarah Lawrence College B.A., Religion, 2007 Bronxville, NY Concentration: Buddhism PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Utah State University Religious Studies Fall 2017– Department of History Visiting Assistant Utah State University Professor of Religious Fall 2016–2017 Studies Department of History Postdoctoral Fellow Utah State University Department of History Fall 2015–Spring 2016 Adjunct Faculty University of Virginia Religious Studies Fall 2013–Spring 2015 CV 1 Sur TEACHING EXPERIENCE Utah State University: Introduction to Religious Studies History of Ancient Religions Introduction to Buddhism Women in Buddhism Buddhism in the West History of Ancient Religions Directed Readings in Tibetan Directed Readings in Sanskrit University of Virginia: Tibetan Literature VII: Poetry, Meditation, Ritual Tibetan Literature VI: Canonical Literature Tibetan Literature V: Narrative Literature Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism CV 2 Sur BOOKS Rongzompa’s Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle: Dzokchen as the Culmination of the Mahāyāna. Boulder, Co.: Shambhala Publications, 2017 BOOK REVIEWS Dominic Sur, review of The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise, by Tsering Wangchuk, August 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/uttaratantra-land-snows Dominic Sur, review of The Trilogy of Rest: Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind, Volume1, by Longchepa, forthcoming. ARTICLES “"Constituting Canon and Community in Eleventh Century Tibet: The Extant Writings of Rongzom and His Charter of Mantrins (sngags pa’i bca’ yig)." Religions, Volume 8, issue 3, article number 40. doi:10.3390/rel803004 CONFERENCE PAPERS "Echoes of Samyé on the Path Through an 11th Century Treatise on the Great Perfection," XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, August 22, 2014 "Issues in the Translation of an 11th Century Tibetan śāstra," South & Central Asian Fulbright Conference, Cochin, Kerala (India), February 23, 2013 PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP Member of the Board of Reviewers at 84000. The 84000 project (84000.co/) is a global non-profit initiative to translate the Buddhist canon into modern languages RESEARCH PROJECTS & EXPERIENCE TEACHING ABROAD Teacher of Buddhist Logic and Debate, Drupthob Monastery, Pharping, Nepal, October – December 1999 Sanskrit-Tibetan bibliographic reconversion project, Harvard University Library Services, 2008-2009 Drepung Monastery documentation project with Dr. Georges Dreyfus (Williams College), Tibetan & Himalayan Library, 2009-2010 CV 3 Sur Tibetan-English translator Tsering Gyelpo’s History of Ngari (Mnga’ ris chos byung), Tibet Project, Tibetan & Himalayan Library, 2010 (University of Virginia) supervised by Dr. David Germano Early Dzokchen Literature Project with Drs. David Germano and Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia, 2010-2011 FIELDWORK & STUDY IN ASIA Solu-khumbhu, Nepal Fulbright Dissertation Research at Serlo Monastery, three months Focus: Canonical formation in the early Great Perfection contemplative tradition Kathmandu, Nepal Fulbright Dissertation Research with scholars from Shechen Monastery, Thupten Chöling Monastery, Sakya International Buddhist Academy, Kopan Nunnery, Kopan Monastery, and Kathmandu University, seven months Kham, Tibet (Western Residential study (seminary) at Serta Larung Gar Sichuan, China) Buddhist Institute, one month Focus: Intellectual history Golok, Tibet (Western Residential study (seminary) at Bayan Monastery, Qinghai, China) one month Focus: Contemplative theory and practice Kapan, Parphing, and Residential study (seminary) at Kopan, Druptob, and Swayambhu, Nepal Manangi Monastery, three years Dharamsala, Benares, and Residential study (seminary) at the Library of Bodhgaya, India Tibetan Works & Archives, Namgyal Monastery, Sarnath, and Bodhgaya, two years Focus: Tibetan language, Buddhist doctrine, ritual, and practice LANGUAGE SKILLS Classical Tibetan Sanskrit CV 4 Sur Pali Modern Tibetan Nepali Spanish Reading French Spanish German FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS (SELECTED) University of Virginia Travel Grant, 2014 Fulbright IIE Research Fellowship, 2012-2013: Nepal Ellen Bayard Weedon Travel Grant, 2011 Julian Green Fellowship, 2011 Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, 2011 (selected, not accepted) Meredith Fonda Russell Memorial Scholarship, 2006-2007 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) American Academy of Religion (AAR) Academic Research Program Initiative (APRI) (Hamburg University) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Chair—Religious Studies Events Committee, 2016– Committee for God & Smog Conference on religion and the envrionment, 2018 Religious Studies Transfers Equivalency Evaluator 2018– CV 5 Sur .